1,000,000 visitors at the Apple Store, 1,000,000 visitors at the store…

The Manhattan Fifth Avenue Apple Store sees its 1,000,000 customer.

The Apple Store on Fifth Avenue opened May, 19th of this year. Less than five months later, the store has seen its 1,000,000 visitor. The visitor, a woman with ginormous sunglasses (which I am told were in style this summer season by Jacqui), walked away with an iPod, an iPod HiFi, a MacBook, and Apple ProCare for the trouble of climbing down the glass steps into the Manhattan store (she might have taken the elevator but we doubt it. If she did, for her bravery she probably deserves a MacBook Pro as well.)

Although 1,000,000 visitors is nothing to sneeze at, 1,000,000 customers would have been more impressive. I suppose when you build a monstrosity the likes of which Apple did in Manhattan, it is going to attract some attention, and not all of the gawkers are going to be customers. If we examine the numbers for a moment 1,000,000 visitors works out to approximately 8,928 per day, or 372 an hour, or 6 per minute, or just about one every 10 seconds since its opening.

For me, the numbers are a bit staggering, but of course so is the the population of NYC. I'd be interested to see just how many of these visitors are repeat, the amount of visitors that make purchases, and average stay time per customer. Of course this kind of data would be next to impossible to tabulate. That is why I recommend Apple offers each person who walks into their store a free, mandatory, special edition RFID tag injected underneath the skin of their forearm. Hey, nobody ever said you could be an independent Mac user.